Cover for packing-tubs



(No Model.)

L. s. HENDRIX. COVER FOR PACKING TUBS.

No 428,319. Patented Mar. 11, 1890.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LARON S. HENDRIX, OF GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS.

COVER FOR PACKING-TUBS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,319, dated March 11, 1890.

Application filed October 22, 1889- Serial No. 327,787. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.

Be itiknown that I, LARON S. HENDRIX, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Gardner, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Covers for Packing-Tubs, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention pertains to animproved cover for packing-tubs, which is peculiarly adapted foruse in connection with butter-tubs; and

it consists in the novelty of its structure,

whereby it is adapted for its intended purpose, substantially as hereinafter more fully shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my cover for packing-tubs as applied to a tub. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 3 is a sectional view, of a part thereof to show the construction of the flange.

In constructing my cover for packing I employ a disk-shaped metallic plate A, and turn down its edge a at right angles thereto and form thereof a sharpened flange a and then by any ordinary means I secure thereon a similar auxiliary metallic plate B,Whose edge extends and laps over the peripheral edge of plate Aas ameans of strengthening the same. The cover edge a is driven into the top of the staves to which it may be applied.

It is obvious that I do not confine myself strictly to the use of an auxiliary second metallic plate B, as the cover may be stamped out from metal in asingle piece of the requisite strength and thickness.

The cover A is provided with an orifice c, which is closed with a rubber stopper or plug 0, which orifice is designed to allow the outflow of brine and to permit the tubs contents to be inspected without removal of the cover.

The cover A may be adapted to any tub,

firkin, or barrel by being made slightly smaller in diameter than the same when driven into LARON s. HENDRIX.

Witnesses:

GEORGE B. MAYER, E. E. RING. 

